Fifty Shades Freed - SFBA Book Club

Paperback, 578 pages

English language

Published April 17, 2012 by Sourcebooks.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-80350-4
OCLC Number:: 780478198

(1 review)

hen unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.

Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate. Ana must somehow learn to share Christian’s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own identity. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past.

Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana’s deepest fears turn to reality.

This book …

hen unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.

Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate. Ana must somehow learn to share Christian’s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own identity. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past.

Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana’s deepest fears turn to reality.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

2 editions

Dysmorphia reviewed Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James (Fifty Shades Trilogy, #3)

Review of 'Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

An abused young woman heroically rescues her sister-in-law from a kidnapper, but because all her friends are assholes they just tell her how angry they are when she wakes at the hospital.

In a tragic, Brazil-style (Terry Gilliam, 1985) epilogue, she falls into a delusional fantasy of happy domesticity and motherhood with her abuser. It's not clear what really happens, because the book is written from a first-person perspective and the narrator is established as quite unreliable, but my reading is that she falls back into a coma after succumbing to her head injuries.

This book does have a lot of explicitly sexual material, which is the main reason you might want to read it. Those scenes are OK. That's why I gave it two stars instead of just one.